Praxis International

What it reported doing in 2025

Praxis international (praxis) has a national reputation for innovative and survivor-focused approaches to working with communities, organizations, and institutions to promote justice and end gender-based violence. Since 1998 praxis has implemented comprehensive and targeted technical assistance projects for the u. S. Department of justice, office on violence against women (ovw) grantees and potential grantees in various grant programs and also provided capacity building and consultation to myriad communities and organizations around the country. Praxis is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization with an active board of directors, all of whom are volunteers. The board establishes all governing documents, and the organizational conflict of interest policy. The board approves the annual organizational budget and reviews quarterly financial statements. These documents are available to the public upon request. The from 990 is reviewed and finalized by the organization's executive director, director of finance and administration, and an annual audit. The primary focus of praxis's work is to teach effective advocacy while strengthening systems and community responses to survivors of gender-based violence. As a national training, consulting, capacity-building, and technical assistance provider, praxis has worked with thousands of people and hundreds of communities seeking to respond to and end gender-based violence in rural, tribal, suburban, and urban communities. Praxis employs a wide range of strategies including training workshops, seminars, practice labs, webinars, and distance learning featuring national experts and peer- to-peer dialogues; roundtables convened to delve deep into issues and foster creative thinking; comprehensive toolkits to help apply new approaches; emerging issue discussions; conference presentations; and a website rich with free materials. For nearly 29 years, praxis has conducted dozens of on-site consultations nationwide, trained more than 14,000 people, provided more than 600 trainings for advocates and institutional workers, conducted over 100 community safety assessments in partnership with local communities, and produced numerous resources. Our current initiatives include the advocacy comprehensive training and technical assistance project, the rural comprehensive training and technical assistance project, the strengthening rural advocacy project, the rural initiatives for service enhancement, and the institutional analysis program.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 71%; rating input score 71
• Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings